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Tuesday, 23 April 2013

"AZ YOO CAN SEE, RICHARD MONEY IZ 'ECSTATIC' THAT NUFC ARE TO PAY THEM A VISIT!"

There's great news for the 'younger' mad-sad groundhoppers amongst us, az we have arranged a friendly against Cambridge United @ The Abbey Stadium toneet @ '7:30 bells'!Former Toon coach, Richard Money iz in charge of 'The Boat Racers' and had asked 'The Toon' for a friendly to celebrate the club's 100th annivorsary! 'Golden oldies' like 'me'!? have been here before of course and wor last visit waz 20 years ago this month when we won 3-0 in the 'old' 2nd Division!For that reason alone we wont be gannin'!---BUT!, 'Liam from the Lamp' and hiz sidekick 'Micheal the Mag', who were too young to gan back then, have hired a 'jam jar' and are heedin' doon this afternoon to add it to 'their list'! It's a tenner to get in for 'grown ups' and a fiver for 'sprogs' and 'zimmerframites'!'Liam from the Lamp' iz deein' 'The Geordie Times' match report for 'this one' and we will have 'excluuusive' live reports online throughoot the evenin' by the wonders of text messagin'!SO!***'tune in' to 'The Geordie Times' toooneet if yi want to naa the score forst!Posted '7:55pm bells''GEORDIE TIMES' NEWSFLASH from 'The Abbey Stadium'!***Amalfitano fires home to put The Toon aheed in the 10th minute!Goal correction time: Liam from the Lamp's watch iz wrang!---the goal time iz actually TWO! minutes!<(must be one of those 'Mickey Moose ones'!)

Updated '8:17pm bells'Half time: 1-0 to The Toon!Updated '8:25pm bells''Liam from the Lamp' haz just been hit by the match baall!<(but bein' a true 'Geordie Times' reportaa, he iz still 'carryin on'!)Updated '8:43pm bells'50th minute: Toon defender Mbabu concedes a penalty 1-1!Correction: goal time actually 55th minute!<(Mickey haz got a lot to answer for!)Updated '8:50pm bells'Peter 'Pedro' 'Quasimodo' Beardsley haz just come on az a super sub for wor U21 resorve side!<(he IZ! anly 52 after aall!)Updated '8:57pm bells'69th minute: Liam iz nearly hit by the match baall again!<(it's caalled 'magnatism'!)Attendance given az1,302<(at least TWO Toon fans from 'The Big Lamp'!)Correction: Attendance iz actually 1,502<(we'll get it reet one day!?)Updated 9:17pm bells'87th minute: GOAL!---Gilliead puts The Toon back in front with a deflected effort!<(or did it gan in direct, from a James Tavernier cross?)Updated: '9:20pm bells'---the ref blows for full time!---The Toon win 2-1!Special thanx to Liam and Michael from *'The Lamp' for this 'oot of depth' match report!*'The Lamp'/Big Lamp' iz a place in The Toon not far from St James' Park on Westgate RoadPS: If yi cannit make it to Cambridge, The Toon U18s are playin' 'The Venky Chickens of Blackborn' @ Little Benton this afternoon!

PS: Too late if yi were thinkin' of gannin' to the U18s game!---just hord that we won 3-0 with Greg Olley and Adam Armstrong gettin' wor goals!